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Dietary land use vs. beef consumption

The percentage of global habitable land area needed for agriculture if the total world population was to adopt the average diet of any given country versus annual per capita beef consumption. Globally we use approximately 50% of habitable land for agriculture, as shown by the grey horizontal line.

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25 Feb 2026
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17 Sept 2026
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Alexander et al. (2016); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025)

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